Nuclear and mtDNA phylogenetic analyses clarify the evolutionary history of two species of native Hawaiian bats and the taxonomy of Lasiurini (Mammalia: Chiroptera)

• Amy B. Baird ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amy B. Baird, John W. Bickham

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: bairda@uhd.edu

  Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston – Downtown, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8303-6399

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• Janet K. Braun ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Mark D. Engstrom ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Ashlyn C. Holbert ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston – Downtown, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Maritza G. Huerta ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston – Downtown, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Burton K. Lim ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Michael A. Mares ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• John C. Patton ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• John W. Bickham

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amy B. Baird, John W. Bickham

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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